Monday, February 5, we will meet online.
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NEWCOMERS WELCOME THIS MONDAY, FEB 5
WE WILL BE ONLINE AT 6:15PM BEFORE SANGHA FOR AN OPTIONAL ORIENTATION.
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This week we will meet Monday from 7-8:30PM EST online, Wednesday morning from 7-8AM in person at our meditation space (3812 Northampton Street NW), and Friday 12-1PM EST online at our meditation space.
Annie will facilitate, and shares:
Dear Friends,
This week we will meet online. Annie will facilitate and we read the Five Mindfulness Trainings. This week we will have two special guests from our community – Rachel Switala and Conor Lane - who have just received the Five Mindfulness trainings at a ceremony on January 6 in Oakton, Virginia.
The FIve Mindfulness trainings are ethical statements that can help us align our life with our deepest intentions. The trainings are based on the practices of understanding and loving kindness toward ourselves, our communities, and the world.
During the ceremony of transmitting the Five Mindfulness Trainings, we hear:
The Mindfulness Trainings have the capacity to protect life and make it beautiful, encouraging us in the direction of peace, joy, liberation, and awakening. To practice the Trainings is to cultivate the insight of Interbeing, which can remove all discrimination, intolerance, anger, fear, and despair.
This week we will read the trainings and then hear a few words from the two Opening Heart folks who most recently received the trainings. They will share a little of what the trainings mean to them and why they decided to receive the trainings. They may also share what their aspiration was and what dharma name they received and how it reflects that aspiration.
Please join us to practice, learn, and connect.
With love,
Annie.